DESTINY

SIX

"I missed you"

"Huh?? What did you say?" Mix asked Fourth. Gemini was also staring at him.

Fourth was startled looking at them. "Huh??"

"I asked you what did you say earlier? You kind of mumbling something." Mix repeated his question.

"Oh nothing.." He said.

Gemini kept staring at him.

Missed you? Who did he miss??

Gemini heard it. Even though Fourth's voice was faint enough but it audible enough for him to hear.

Day by day after the first time he was here in Fourth's condo, Gemini felt a strong connection to his professor. But until now, he didn't know what to call it.

After dinner, Mix volunteered himself to wash the dish and he ask Gemini to help him.

"Ok.. I'll be in my room for a while.. Just call me if you two need anything..." Fourth said and left to his room.

"Yes.. Off course..... Hey Nat... Don't be too hard on yourself... Tomorrow is weekend.. Just chill out..." Mix shouted from the kitchen.

Gemini smiled and his eyes still glued to Fourth's bedroom door.

Mix nudged him. "What's the meaning of this Gem??" He asked.

"What? What the meaning of what?" Gemini asked him back.

"This.... You came here out of nowhere... And that little smiles of yours earlier?? What was it??" Mix shot him with questions.

Gemini could only opened and shut his mouth. He couldn't utter a word. Mix squinted his eyes while staring at him.

"I just want to prove your words..." Gemini said.

"What words???" Mix asked him again.

Gemini rolled his eyes. "You said to me that I should see P' Nat in different side.. So I did it..."

"Look Gem... What was your purpose actually? I thought you hate him..What made you want to know him?" Mix couldn't help to ask.

Gemini felt that Mix staring at him and he knew that Mix wouldn't let him go. 

"I just...." He sighed. "Hate is a strong word P'...I don't know P' Mix...I just feel that I've known him for so long....since I met him last semester, his presence really affected me..as you know, I didn't like him before, he made me always have something to complained him...the way he talked to me or looked at me...I thought that he was the one who disliked me.." Gemini told him. 

"So..now you want to know why Nat behave like that to you?? or you want to know the other side of him outside the university?" Mix asked him again.

"Both..." Gemini answered him.

Little did they knew, Fourth heard it when Gemini said that he felt like he know him. Fourth's heart skipped a beat. He was about to go to the bathroom where he accidentally eavesdropped them.

Did Gemini started to recognize him?

He hoped he wasn't. Fourth went back to his room silently and stayed there until Mix called him to tell him that he want to go home.

"Thank you for the meal P' Nat...I'm sorry if I bothered you.." Gemini said. He stared deeply at his professor tried to met his eyes but Fourth didn't even look at him.

Fourth just nodded without looking at Gemini and that made the latter a little bit sad. Then Gemini and Mix left his condo. And when they were in the elevator, Mix told Gemini to be patient with Fourth.